Polychloranilin derivative.



szra'rns PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD SUHRAUBE AND ERNST LAUDIEN, OF LUDWIGSHAFEN-ON-THE-RH1NE, GERMANY,

'ASSIGNORS TO BADISOHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK, OF LUDWIGSHAFEN-ON-THE-RHINE,

' GERMANY, A CORPORATION.

PQLYCHLORAN ILIN DERIVATIVE.

. To all whom it may concern:

peror, residm Be it known that we, CONRAD SoHnAUBE and ER1vsT LAUDIEN, doctors of philoso hy,

subjects of the King ofPrussia,-German mat Ludwigshafen on the- Rhine, inthe ingdom of Bavaria, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in 'Polychloranilin Derivatives and Making Same, of which the following is a Specification.

, Our invention relates to the manufacture and production of a new class of alkyl-acyl derivatives of polychloranilins which contain three, or more, atoms of chlorin, of which two atoms are in the ortho positions to the amide: group a,

' placed by alkali metal. The aforesaid alkylacyl derivatives can also be obtained by treating the corresponding alkyl derivatives with an acld chlorld', or with an acid anhyacetic anhydrid.

The polychloranilins, of which the derivatives can be used in carrying out our invention, include 2.4.6--trieliloranilin, 2.3.4.6- t'etrachloranilin, 2 .3 6tetracliloranilin, and 2.3.4.5.6-pentachlorauilin.

The new alkyl-acyl derivatives which can be prepared according to our invention constitute a valuable class of compounds, since many of them can be used as substitutes for camphor in the'production of substances re-' sembling celluloid, since on mixing them with nitrocellulose, if necessary with the addition-oi a little alcohol, the nitrocellulose swells and the mixture resembles celluloid. We wish to be understood. as claimipg our new polychloranilin derivatives either alone.

or when in admixture with other compounds. We make no claim to such mixtures of our Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 24, 1906. Serial No. 313,512,

Patented June 22, eoe.

derivatives with other compounds such as nitrocellulose, but we desire to claim only the new alkyl acyl polychloranilin derivatives contained therein.

The new derivatives which we claim genericall y are, when pure, colorless compounds and are soluble in alcohol, in benzene, and in glacial acetic acid and possess a constitution corresponding to the formula acyl where one X represents chlorin and the other two represent either chlorin or hydrogen.

The new derivatives which we wish to be understood as claimings ecifieally are asymmetrical and symmetrica ethyl-aeetyl-tetraehlor-anilid, which melt at temperatures of about seventy-four and eighty-four degrees .centigrade respectively and have the con stit-ution represented by the formula The following examples will serve to further illustrate the nature of our invention and how it can be carried into practical efl'ect, but the invention is not confined to these examples. The parts are by weight. drid, such for instance as acetyl chlorld and Example 1: Heat together, in an autoclave, on the water-bath, one hundred (100) parts oi acet-tetrz'uhloramlul two hundred and fifty (350) parts of alcohol (in which seven and a hall (7.5) parts of sodium have previously been dissolved) and twenty-live (25) parts of ethly ehlorid, and continue the heating for about twenty-four (24) hours, or until the-pressure (which at the connneneement oi' the reaction was about three (3) atmospheres) no longer d creases. Disiil oil' the alcohol, melt the residue, and wash it with hot water in order to remove the sodium chlorid formed. The reaction prodnot can be purified either by distillation in vacuo, or by crystallization from alcohol, and .as-etliylacetyl-tetrachloranilid (melting at a temperature of from seventy-three (73),

' can be'represented by the formula to seventy-four (74), degrees centigrade) be can thus be obtained. takes place can be represented by the tenths (6.9) parts of sodium have previously whereupon benzyl-benzoyltetracliloranili l.

obtained. The reaction which takes place Example 3: Boil to ethe 1.1 a reflux apparatus, for about six 6)'h ours, one hundred (100) parts of s-acet-tetrachloranilid,- five hundred (500) parts of alcohol, in which fifteen (15) parts of caustic soda have reviously been dissolved, and fifty (50) parts of benzyl chlorid, and work up the product as described in the fore oing example 1; s benzyl aeetyl tetrach oranilid (melting point ninety-seven (97) degrees centigrade) The reaction which formula U llCl .NNa.COCH (J H JJH CI C IICLN (Ull U H .COOH N aCl. Example 4: Boil together for about six (6) hours, in a reflux a )paratus, one hundred (100) parts of as enzoyltetrachloranilid (meltim point about two hundred and four (204) egrees centi rade), three hundred (300) parts of alcoho in which six and nine-.

been dissolved, and tfhirty-eight (38) parts of benzyl chlorid, and work up the product as described in the foregoing example I,

(melting at a temperatureof one hundred and thirty-four (134) degrees centi rade) is ob tained. The reaction which ta es place can be represented by the formula e r-I01 .uuacoe n +c.,n.en o1= 1 m11..uwn e n yooe n NaCl.

Now what we claim is:

' 1. The process for the production of alkylaeyl derivatives of a hereinbefore" defined polychloranilin by heating in a suitable'sol- Vent an alkali salt of "an acyl derivative of such polychloranilin with'a halogen alkyl compound.

2. The process for the production of ethylacetyl-tetrachloranilid by heating in a suitable solvent an alkali salt of aeetyltetra-- ,chloranilid with ethyl chlorid.

3. As new articles of manufacture the alkyl acyl derivatives of a hereinbefore defined polychloranilin which com )ounds when pure are colorless and crystalline and are solu'blein alcohol and in benzene and in glacial acetic acid and possess a constitution corresponding to the formula Where oneX represents chlorin and the other two represent either chlorin or hydrogen.

4. As a new article of manufacture ethylacetyl-tctrachloranilid which when pure is colorless and crystalline and is soluble in alcohol and in benzene and in glacial acetic ,acid and which melts at a temperature of about seventy-four (74) degrees centigrade and which possesses a constitution corresponding to the formula can (,J1CI,N CUCHB in testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands 1n the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JONRAD SCHRAUBE. uansr LA'UDJEN. Witnesses:

J. Auto. hLoYn, EaNss'r (2i. Euuumurr. 

